Category: Yahoo

First it was Craigslist asking for your phone number to verify your account. Today while trying to set up a Flickr account using a new Yahoo email address, they wanted my cell phone number to authenticate my account. I would have no problem giving them my business phone number, but I don’t care to give Yahoo my cell phone number to verify my email account. I had already given them my recovery email address. So now, I will need to find a work-around possibly purchasing a disposable phone just so I can verify a new Yahoo email address for business use.

So this begs the question…why does Yahoo only want a mobile number vs. any other number?

If you’re advertising on both Yahoo and Bing, you’re aware or should be of the soon coming migration of Yahoo’s pay per click platform over to Bing’s. This article is geared towards advertisers that have thousands of keywords they are attempting to migrate.

I’ve attempted to migrate an account using the Adcenter tab within my Yahoo account. After going through the process several times I receive an error message asking me to try again. (See the image below)

I have not be able to get past this point. The other issue I’m having is that I cannot select the 2nd radio button to just import my data.

My current plan is to just download my Yahoo account, make needed changes and then upload through Adcenter desktop.

We’ve all been sitting back and waiting to see what would happen with the Yahoo Microsoft search alliance. Both companies announced approval yesterday. This morning when I logged into my Yahoo account, here is the message posted across the top of my screen: